I need only a few drops at a time, not large amounts. I dont want to buy a whole gallon--no where to keep it.
2006-09-21 13:13:45 · 8 answers · asked by blackjack 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
distilled water is water without anything else in it. boiling water and then collecting the vapor will give pure, distilled water in a fairly low amount
2006-09-21 13:34:10 · answer #1 · answered by The Frontrunner 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can buy it at Kroger's for about 90 cents a gallon.
Distilled water is water that had been heated to boiling, and condensed back into water. The first part of the condensate is discarded as it might have volatile impurities.
Solids that were dissolved in the water prior to distillation remain in the heating vessel. But, the plastic bottles the water is stored in does have some impurities that leach out into the water.
Unless your doing some really sensitive science it should not be a drawback to use distilled water in plastic bottles.
2006-09-21 13:20:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You gotta boil water, and then collect the steam somehow, and then let it cool into water again.
You could try having a pot with a smaller pot inside it. Put water on the outside pot, but not on the inside pot.
Then take some aluminum foil and cover the outer pot. Then put a penny or something in the middle of the foil so that the steam will drip down under the penny into the middle pot.
This probably won't work, but it's an idea.
2006-09-21 13:37:39 · answer #3 · answered by RED MIST! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Distilled water is water that has been condensed.
If you have salt water together, and you want to separate it, you use a filter to separate the salt from the water by evaporating it. Then you condense it and the result is ditilled water.
Ex: Zephyrhills, Aquafina, Dasani, Evian.
Procedure: Get 2 bottles and get a filter or tube. Get salt water, then wait for it to evaporate by boiling it. When it evaporates, it travels through the tube, and condenses on the other bottle, and you get distilled water.
2006-09-21 13:20:22 · answer #4 · answered by Lone Star 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Distilled water is water that has been relieved of all of its contaminants. Purified water, basically. You can make homemade distilled water by boiling it, but it won't be completely decontaminated or divorced from electrolytes. Achieving that end would require capturing its steam from boiling and recondensing it.
2006-09-21 13:22:14 · answer #5 · answered by evelynn waugh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put some tap water in a pan, boil it with the top on.
collect the water on the top - its distilled.
otherwise buy a h2o distiller, costs about $125.
or juy a jug.
2006-09-21 13:18:09 · answer #6 · answered by michael r. Doe 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah... it is a water free of any dissolve substance such as electrolytes and minerals...
just boil water in a kettle then get the vaporing water by condensing in a cover of a caserole then get a glass to receive the droping distilled water... you can distilled water as much as you can...
best answer?
2006-09-21 13:20:31 · answer #7 · answered by teroy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
buy a sports size bottle of water at a gas station or convience store then . Iliminates storage problems.
2006-09-21 13:17:40 · answer #8 · answered by Grev 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋